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MAGUED Shaimaa
No full textDoctorante de 2009 à 2012 . Contact: [email protected] Directeur de thèse: Gérard Groc, IREMAM . Sujet de thèse Le redéploiement de la diplomatie régionale turque dans le contexte de l’invasion de l’Irak. . Domaines de recherche Relations Internationales, Sciences Politiques . Formation Université du Caire, Faculté d’Economie et de Sciences Politiques SciencesPo Paris (master en RI) . Langues Arabe (langue maternelle) Anglais (courant) Français (courant) Hébreu (niveau intermédiaire
Contestation and Consensus over Davutoğlu’s Conception of Turkish Regional Power Role in the Middle East (2002-2016)
Get PDFIn light of ebbs and flows in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East, this study examines intra-elite disagreement and consensus over former Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s conception of regional power role since 2002 until 2016. While National Role Conception (NRC) literature has discounted intra-elite disagreements and variations, this study unravels contestations over Turkish regional power role within the AKP leadership and disagreements among the state bureaucracy, the opposition, and civil society from 2002 until Davutoğlu’s resignation in 2016. Building on factors of national role analysis, this study argues that Davutoğlu’s conception of regional power role in the Middle East has manifested elements of contestation and consensus across domestic actors due to variations in ideas, ideology, identity, and structure-agents interactions. This finding dwells on the triangulation of three research methods used in analyzing politicians, bureaucrats, and activists’ statements, declarations, and publications and tracking nuances of consensus and contestation over Turkish regional power role. It also relies on an extensive fieldwork study conducted by the author with Turkish officials in the AKP, opposition parties, and civil society from 2010 until 2015
Variations in strategic change cycle: Thailand's office board of investment, tri-county foundation and UN Women Egypt as case studies
Get PDFPurpose - Combining two organizational change theories, life cycle and organizational development, this study examines how strategic change cycle has been adopted and implemented across three different organizations, a public organization, an NGO and an intergovernmental organization toward achieving their goals. Design/methodology/approach - This study triangulates three different qualitative research methods: open-ended semi-structured interviews conducted with UN Women Egypt's director, text analysis of the three organizations' websites and the discourse analysis of the Tri-County Foundation's leaders. Findings - Strategic change cycle has been differently formulated, adopted and implemented by the three organizations based on their goals, resources and contexts. While Office Board of Investment adopted a comprehensive reactive change, Tri-County Foundation followed a partial proactive transformation and UN Women Egypt developed a partial reactive strategy. Henceforth, public organizations and nonprofit organizations can develop different strategies of change in function of needs, resources, goals and context. Originality/value - This study advances a theoretical framework on organizational change by integrating two theories, life cycle and organizational development, presenting four patterns of change: comprehensive reactive, comprehensive proactive, partial reactive and partial proactive
The Security Ghost of the January 25th Revolution in al-Sisi Regime's Policy toward Gaza
Get PDFThis study argues that al-Sisi regime has been haunted by the January 25 uprisings as a potential recurrent threat to the state survival during the formulation of national and foreign politics. In the aim of boosting its international legitimacy before Western allies, especially the US, the regime has capitalized on political instabilities in Gaza as a means to ensure its security grip on power without incurring foreign allies' critics for human rights violations. How did al-Sisi regime mobilize Gaza as a means for bolstering its international credibility before Western bailers and shunning off the January 25 security ghost? In answering this question, this study refers to haunted politics in foreign policy-making as an informative perspective about the impact of traumatic events on ruling regimes' interpretation of incidents, convocation of memories, recreation of meanings, and subjugation of citizens. Unlike Mubarak's limited support for the Palestinian cause and Morsi's exclusive ties with Hamas, al-Sisi adopted a balanced approach toward Gaza in the aim of counterbalancing the US reservations over the regime’s human rights violations since 2013
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bypassing the Regime's Crackdown on Public Protests: Egyptians' Individual Mobilization into a pro-Palestinian Cyberadvocacy in the Aftermath of al-Aqsa Flood Operation
Get PDFDrawing on the aftermath of al-Aqsa Flood Operation against the Zionist blockade on Gaza in 2023, this study examines how Egyptian supporters of the Palestinian cause overcame the regime's repression of public protests through individual mobilization into cyber-advocacy campaigns on social media. Building on scholarship addressing youth political mobilization, the Palestinian cause has been the epicenter of social activism and political engagement in public sphere in contestation of the legitimacy of successive Egyptian regimes. Although the Sisi regime has embarked on arrest campaigns against pro-Palestinian protestors, social media's legacy in the Arab uprisings as a reliable and secure platform of political mobilization prompted Egyptians to individually engage into cyberadvocacy campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok in support for Palestine. Examining social media outlets since 7 October 2023, Egyptians' pro-Palestinian cyberadvocacy has enabled them to show support toward Gazans, expose Arab leaders' complicity with the Zionist regime, and defy the Zionist narrative about the right to Palestine as a homeland for Jews. Utilizing Social Movement Studies (SMTs)' notion of individual mobilization and relying on the critical discourse analysis of al-Sisi speeches, the content analysis of pro-Palestinian campaigns, and the author's interviews with 58 Egyptian activists, the study highlighted a three-layered pro-Palestinian cyberadvocacy which consisted of raising public awareness of the Zionist human rights' violation committed against Palestinians, debunking the Zionist myths of fighting terrorism in Gaza, and boycotting pro-Zionist brands
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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